Two off-duty Cook County Sheriff's Police officers were involved in an incident outside an Oak Lawn bowling alley Saturday night in which an armed man was shot after the officers saw him shooting at a car leaving the scene, Oak Lawn police said today. The shooting occurred at about 11:20 p.m. in the parking lot in front of the Brunswick Zone, 4700 W. 103rd St. In total, two people were struck by gunfire -- the man shot by police and a "juvenile" who was...

Fire crews in Kankakee this evening were battling an extra-alarm blaze at a building that houses both an auto parts business and a bowling alley. Flames had burned through the roof at the business on the 1900 block of East Court Street, according to the Kankakee Township Fire Department, which was assisting the city fire department douse the blaze. The fire was believed contained to the auto business, a township fire official said. Fire crews remained at the scene as of 9 p.m. ...

January 28, 2011 | By Joseph Ruzich and Caroline Kyungae Smith and Special to the Tribune

Three police officers were injured early Friday during a brawl involving about two dozen people at a bowling alley in Hillside that has been the site of increased violence in recent weeks, police said. Charges have been filed against six people from Chicago who were involved in the fight, which took place at the Hillside Bowl, 4545 Harrison St., according to Hillside police. Police responded to the bowling alley about 2:15 a.m. Three Hillside officers were injured while...

Former Island Lake Mayor Thomas Hyde was acquitted of charges of official misconduct and forgery tonight after a four-day jury trial in Lake County Circuit Court in Waukegan before Judge Fred Foreman. The jury was out for about an hour. Hyde, emotional after the verdict with his wife and children, said through his attorney that he was "appreciative of the jury. " If he had been found guilty, he could have been sentenced to...

January 28, 2011 | By Joseph Ruzich and Caroline Kyungae Smith and Special to the Tribune

Three police officers were injured early Friday during a brawl involving about two dozen people at a bowling alley in Hillside that has been the site of increased violence in recent weeks, police said. Charges have been filed against six people from Chicago who were involved in the fight, which took place at the Hillside Bowl, 4545 Harrison St., according to Hillside police. Police responded to the bowling alley about 2:15 a.m. Three Hillside officers were injured while...

Two off-duty Cook County Sheriff's Police officers were involved in an incident outside an Oak Lawn bowling alley Saturday night in which an armed man was shot after the officers saw him shooting at a car leaving the scene, Oak Lawn police said today. The shooting occurred at about 11:20 p.m. in the parking lot in front of the Brunswick Zone, 4700 W. 103rd St. In total, two people were...

Fire crews in Kankakee this evening were battling an extra-alarm blaze at a building that houses both an auto parts business and a bowling alley. Flames had burned through the roof at the business on the 1900 block of East Court Street, according to the Kankakee Township Fire Department, which was assisting the city fire department douse the blaze. The fire was believed contained to the auto business, a township fire official said. Fire crews remained at the scene as of 9 p.m. ...

A 28-year-old Bolingbrook man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Tuesday and was sentenced to 11 years in prison for killing a rival gang member outside a Berwyn bowling alley two years ago. Francisco Arceo has said he shot Charles Mooney, 27, of Berwyn in self-defense. An eyewitness told investigators and the grand jury that Mooney was not armed. However, shortly before the trial, that witness changed his story and told prosecutors that Mooney had two bricks in his hands...

Rod Blagojevich's approval ratings had tanked and he was furious. Illinois voters were ingrates, the former governor complained to an aide on an undercover recording played at his corruption trial today. "I (expletive) busted my ass and pissed people off and gave your grandmother a free (expletive) ride on a bus. OK? I gave your (expletive) baby a chance to have health care," Blagojevich ranted. "And what do I get for that?" he continued, "Only 13 percent of you all out there think I'm...

Three teenagers broke into an entertainment center in Batavia this week and stole liquor and candy, police said today. The boys, all 15 years old, were charged with burglary, possession of burglary tools, felony theft and felony criminal damage to property, according to Batavia Police Detective Eric Mathewson. Police received a report of an alarm at the Funway Ultimate Entertainment Center, 1335 S. River St., about 1:50 a.m. Tuesday, Mathewson said. When officers arrived, they...

A man found guilty for a second time in a 1991 murder and kidnapping in Brookfield was sentenced today to natural life in prison, prosecutors said. Darryl Sutton, 49, has been in prison since his arrest late that year in the slaying and rape of Monica Rinaldi, 27, of Brookfield, and the shooting of her boyfriend, David Janik, then 29, after their abduction from a bowling alley parking lot, according to court and prison records. Sutton's first conviction was reversed by a higher court, but...

Rod Blagojevich's approval ratings had tanked and he was furious. Illinois voters were ingrates, the former governor complained to an aide on an undercover recording played at his corruption trial today. "I (expletive) busted my ass and pissed people off and gave your grandmother a free (expletive) ride on a bus. OK? I gave your (expletive) baby a chance to have health care," Blagojevich ranted. "And what do I get for that?" he continued, "Only 13 percent of you all out there think I'm...

Former Island Lake Mayor Thomas Hyde was acquitted of charges of official misconduct and forgery tonight after a four-day jury trial in Lake County Circuit Court in Waukegan before Judge Fred Foreman. The jury was out for about an hour. Hyde, emotional after the verdict with his wife and children, said through his attorney that he was "appreciative of the jury. " If he had been found guilty, he could have been sentenced to up five years in prison. He and his wife, Ruth, still face charges...

A 28-year-old Bolingbrook man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Tuesday and was sentenced to 11 years in prison for killing a rival gang member outside a Berwyn bowling alley two years ago. Francisco Arceo has said he shot Charles Mooney, 27, of Berwyn in self-defense. An eyewitness told investigators and the grand jury that Mooney was not armed. However, shortly before the trial, that witness changed his story and told prosecutors that Mooney had two bricks in his hands when he...

A Bellwood man who intentionally ran down the 11-year-old son of his estranged girlfriend in a Woodridge parking lot, was sentenced today to 18 years in prison. The boy suffered road burns over 90 percent of his body and a torn ear that needed to be reattached. Tiyon Tyson, 29, of the 3400 block of Warren Avenue in the west suburb, pleaded guilty earlier this year to aggravated battery of a child. The incident followed an argument between Tyson and his former girlfriend, who...

Police negotiated for 12 hours but couldn't get a man wanted on a weapons warrant to come out of his home. So officers finally flushed out Lowell Aughenbaugh by spraying a firehose through a window in the apartment at a McCook oil facility, police said. Police at the scene of the barricade situation in McCook. (Tribune / William DeShazer) Aughenbaugh, 47, became the subject of an...